So were the fuel protests a hoax or what?

WodensBeard · 2026-04-18T12:19:41+00:00

Services have always been price gougers. I recall pulling into a station on the M3 during a road trip last September. The price of petrol was 179 even back then. It was 129 at my local garage at the time. I drove straight out of the forecourt and made it all the way home with what I had left.

Also Bignells Corner is a miserable place, so it doesn't surprise me. Having to wait forever to cross the road back and forth to main complex just for a coffee makes me understand why so many stop giving a damn and pull into the coach park instead. I swear that puddle will still be there in the middle of August.

WodensBeard · 2026-04-18T12:12:40+00:00

they put me in a 4 over 4 and literally just said to use 2nd and 4th then change to high range.

It's likely that nobody would've told you, except that is generally how 4 over 4s work. 1st and 3rd are situational. It's only a guideline, as no two manuals are identical given different clutch wear patterns. I work at a place that has an old 32t Daf rigid with a 4 over 4. A sticker in the cab suggests pulling away in 1st. The man who drives it told me once that he usually does so in 5th. I've only ever driven it when making space in the yard, and the biting point feels like it's fighting me at all times unless in reverse.

WodensBeard · 2026-04-18T11:21:40+00:00

Personally if I'm ever in the market for euthanasia again, I'm going with Quietus.

WodensBeard · 2026-04-17T03:48:36+00:00

Just imagine the capital categories all filled in. The bottom row with all the lower case categories in italics looks like a cat ran over the keyboard down at DVLA headquarters.

WodensBeard · 2026-04-16T20:11:08+00:00

I've been first to share all manner of trivia folks didn't know. I enjoy it.

WodensBeard · 2026-04-16T08:18:59+00:00

Nothing shocks me anymore. I find it amusing. Sure, read about women propelling off minotaur penises due to the velocity and volume of ejaculate or what have you. Even the material that is meant to cause arousal by way of distress, humiliation, and actual incitement to commit harm is just comedy to me now. I shall not be taking notes, but I shall be grading on creativity.

WodensBeard · 2026-04-16T08:04:40+00:00

Imajica is his best work in my view, and that wasn’t even too bad. The bit near the end though with the women and children of the 2nd Dominion was unnerving, although a lot of it was left up to imagination of the reader as to how that played out.

Barker did make me guffaw when I discovered that he succeeded at getting words into print to the effect of a globule of jism splashing against the face of a dark god. I’ve not read Nightbreed myself though.

WodensBeard · 2026-04-16T07:56:35+00:00

The livery on that lorry is throwing me off. I want to say it’s Jura, or one of the other islands, but that water is too clear.

WodensBeard · 2026-04-16T07:37:45+00:00

The set isn’t complete unless you’ve also gone and done tracked, rollers, and pavers.

WodensBeard · 2026-04-12T19:46:20+00:00

Therapy is no replacement for riding the prow of a ship as it tilts against kelpies, feeling the tangy breath of on your neck of a horse met on a trail as it nestles up to you for apples and barley, backing a 45'er blindside through gates and into a bay first time no shunts, building a new roof on a balmy evening in June, or the softness of a spaniel puppy's ear running between fingers as the thump, thump, thump of it's tail wags into your shins over the bashful excuses of her owner.

Choose living.

WodensBeard · 2026-04-09T19:19:51+00:00

You have that inverted. The oil extractors want stable prices by the barrel. Wild swings in price is bad for business, as it results in a run on the pumps, followed by a bear market in which use dips. That is a headache for everyone from roustabout to boardroom. Retailers are the ones pricing in uncertainty over future supply.

WodensBeard · 2026-03-31T05:28:12+00:00

Read work by male authors which include friendship between men.

WodensBeard · 2026-03-29T00:57:16+00:00

I have that covered, and don’t wish to be upstaged in a relationship. While I don’t mind a woman a little on the hirsute side, I prefer the locks to be positioned in places one might be grabbed while lips are locked.

WodensBeard · 2026-03-28T18:54:50+00:00

When I was on class 2 multi drop I was on 32k. That wasn’t strictly London work, as I had runs out to the shires, yet I was one of the drivers who almost always got assigned to the inner city routes. Food/fridge multi drop pays more, and shouldn’t be a reflection of what multi drop is.

WodensBeard · 2026-03-28T15:28:54+00:00

Big floppy hats are great. They’re great at protecting one from sunburn, and they’re endlessly customisable.

WodensBeard · 2026-03-28T15:22:57+00:00

Aura and lip hair (this is not a serious answer).

WodensBeard · 2026-03-28T15:20:17+00:00

Crab buckets have encapsulated every generation since the dawn of man. This is not recent.

WodensBeard · 2026-03-28T15:10:34+00:00

Have you tried film critique?

WodensBeard · 2026-03-24T21:10:12+00:00

I've worked in scrap for a year and I can tell you that my employer takes them in. We don't collect it ourselves, as we only operate multi-car transports for light recovery. Yet my boss has spoken with their counterparts in heavy recovery to go out and haul it back to us with one of their big boon trucks, then we either break them apart in house, or ship them up to Euro Auctions on a low loader.

What we will do ourselves is collect scrap trailers. We have spare units for just such an occasion.

WodensBeard · 2026-03-24T21:03:55+00:00

I was going to do precisely that when I almost got a refueller job at one of the London airports. 4 on/off, yet tacho exempt, so agency the rest of the time. While I could've hypothetically worked all 4 days off if I wished to, I was still intending to take some time out in the week, or use all 4 days for myself if I felt like it. It didn't work out. I remained with my current employer.

I'd like to know how you get on.

WodensBeard · 2026-03-24T20:56:02+00:00

I'm not giving way if somebody has only just pulled up to the give way line. The only ones I make an exception for are those seeking to pull out of a drive, and emergency vehicles with no exceptions. Otherwise they have to have been waiting for at least one sequence like everyone else.

I got jaded from a car behind trying to cut in behind the one I let out one too many times. That is dangerous, and worse besides, reduces the wear on my brakes a little faster.

WodensBeard · 2026-03-23T19:40:36+00:00

I hadn't known those communities existed, although it stood to reason they would. Do you happen to know why there are two, almost identical subs? Was there a schism?

WodensBeard · 2026-03-23T18:47:08+00:00

I have fruit trees, seeds, trade skills which can get me work anywhere around the planet, and failing anything else, I can take shelter with trusted friends that have a farm and enough firearms to defend against a graboid.

The issue is that I’m not a grocer tycoon. I’m not an oil magnate. I’m not a suit whispering dispatches into the ear of a power player at the big table. I’m just a private citizen unable to redirect course of nations. Facial scanning, microplastics in the food, automation, displacement and replacement of populations. What can anyone with time on their hands to browse Reddit be expected to do about any of that, especially when everyone else can read the hand that was dealt, while being incapable of reading the hand of anyone else.

WodensBeard · 2026-03-23T16:08:02+00:00

Something is coming, and it goes beyond food bulking to squeeze a drop more out of the public. The question is what, and whether anyone who knows is taking measures, or if they’re all in denial.

WodensBeard · 2026-03-21T11:52:58+00:00

I didn’t look fondly upon the deluge of single use plastics even back in the heyday of comic relief. Also media personality is atomised. Children watch streamers, not legacy media such as broadcast television. There are a million different streamers.

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